“In 1997 you hear for the first time that your husband claims to have been sexually assaulted by Colin Gregg. You hear for the first time that another boy had made an allegation but had been disbelieved.”

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The complainants wife is then asked why her husband had never mentioned it before.She said:

“Being in a boys’ school, it’s not the sort of thing you tell people. And he wouldn’t have told his mum because she was proud of the fact he was there.”

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After a short break the trial resumes

The court will now hear from the complainant’s wife.She made a statement to police in 2013, regarding her husband’s 1997 phone call to the mother of a boy who alleged Gregg had abused him.On the night of the phone call, she said her husband told her of the alleged incident, before he sat down to make the call.She said:

“A conversation during the day had mentioned Gregg’s bakers. And someone said, ‘I know Colin Gregg has abused my friend’s son’. And my husband said well actually I can believe that because something happened to me at school.

Complainant now finished on stand

The complainant is now asked if he made this up to make himself seem “important or relevant”.He replied:

“I was telling the truth about what happened.”

The complainant has now finished giving evidence.

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The complainant is once again asked why he did not report the alleged attack, especially with Gregg being a teacher working with children.

He said:

“I thought Colin Gregg was involved in Gregg’s bakery. I did not know he had gone into teaching. I certainly have no recollection of Gregg being involved with children until after 1997.

“There would have been no reason for me to mention it to anybody because I did not think Gregg was in education.”

Defending, Ms Wass said:

“The reason you did not tell anybody is that nothing happened to you at the hands of Colin Gregg.”

The complainant replied:

“That is not the case.”

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Ms Wass is now talking about the complainant’s memory of the alleged incident.

She says he cannot remember the time of day, the year or whether it was a swimming lesson or not. She says his memory of the incident is poor, which the complainant denies.The accuser says that during the alleged incident his legs were around the waist of Gregg.He says he could not move his legs, which Ms Wass says means Gregg’s hands must have been keeping him in place, meaning he could not have assaulted the complainant as alleged.

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Ms Wass is now asking the complainant if he asked the mother of the accuser in the 1997 trial if the police were involved.He says he didn’t.Ms Wass again asks why the alleged assault was not reported to police when the complainant heard about the other alleged attack.

She said: “It never happened did it? You were never assaulted by Mr Gregg in a swimming pool?”

The complainant replied: “I do not know how you can come to that conclusion.”

The court hears Gregg taught the complainant, who says he cannot remember.The complainant says he remembers Gregg’s car, which was a Saab, as well as some of the registration plate, which was ‘FTY’.

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Ms Wass says if the complainant knew that Gregg was at the school at the time he would also know he was working with children.She says if the complainant knew Gregg was working with kids it would have been “responsible” to report the alleged abuse.She said:

“But you never, ever reported this event you say happened, to anybody until the conversation you had with (your colleague).”

The complainant denies knowing Gregg was working at the school in Tynemouth.He said:

“If I had known it would have been responsible for me to ring the police.”

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The alleged victim is now being cross-examined.

Defending Gregg, Sasha Wass QC asks why it took more than 30 years for the complainant to come forward.She says during his life and the relationships he made, including his marriage, he had told no-one of the alleged abuse.She says Gregg’s 1997 trial received widespread attention but the complainant says he was not aware of it at the time.In a 2013 statement, the complainant’s wife said in 1997 her husband phoned the mother of the other alleged victim. And she said when he was explaining who Gregg was he told her he was linked to both Greggs bakers and King’s School in Tynemouth.

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Complainant made no claim for compensation

The court is now hearing how the complainant came to make the accusation against Gregg.During a 1997 conversation with a workmate, the talk got around to Gregg and the complainant’s colleague said her friend’s son had made an allegation against Gregg but had not been believed.It was then that the complainant phoned the mother of the accuser to provide reassurance that her son was not a liar.

He said at that point he had no intention of making a statement to police.

He added he had made no claim for compensation and his part in these proceedings is the result of the police coming to him, rather than him seeking them out.

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He added:

“At that point I thought if I could get to the end of the swimming pool there was a rail at the end and if I could grab hold of the rail I could pull myself loose and then I would be free to swim away.”

The complainant said nothing was said by either person during the alleged incident and he never told anyone at the school because he would not have been believed and “it was his word against my word and I would probably come off worst” .

When asked if he thought the act was deliberate, he replied, “yes”.

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Alleged assault happened in swimming pool

The complainant says he cannot remember exactly where or when the alleged incident happened and describes himself as “young, certainly not old” when it is said to have happened.

Describing the alleged assault, he said:

“It occurred in the swimming pool during a swimming lesson. I was in the pool, Mr Gregg approached me saying that he could improve my breast stroke by holding my legs.

“At that point I had my legs around his waist. At some point I realised that his hand moved inside my swimming trunks.”

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First complainant takes the stand

Taking to the witness box, the complainant says he was aged 14 and a pupil at Durham School where Gregg was a teacher when the alleged abuse happened.He says that prior to the alleged incident he had had no previous dealings with Gregg.

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Trial gets back under way

The jury is back in court and Colin Gregg’s trial is back under way.We will now hear from a complainant in the case who alleges he was abused in a swimming pool by Gregg in the 1960s.The alleged victim is now in his 60s.

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Proceedings will start up again soon

After a short break, the trial at Leeds Crown Court is expected to get going again within the next five minutes.

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Prosecution concludes

Concluding, Mr Greaney QC says there is a “clear theme to the allegations”.

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Complainants copied 'evil lies' from first boy, Gregg says

Gregg says the final complainant - who made the 1997 allegations - made the abuse up.The defendant says he is the cause of all his troubles and the first to make up “evil lies” about him, lies that others have now based their stories on.Gregg’s says others made copycat stories, perhaps in the hope of compensation.During his interviews, Gregg answered all questions put to him and “denied forcefully” that he had ever abused anyone.He referred to his wealth and said the similarities in complaints stemmed from them modelling their stories on the original allegation, which received widespread media attention.In an interview, Gregg told police: “The North East is a very insular place and once things start off.”

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Complainant spoke up after 'four years of abuse'

The victim allegedly became sick of the abuse and told his mother.

By this stage he was aged 14 and the alleged abuse had taken place for four years.The prosecution allege the similarities between the accusations points to a propensity of abuse of young boys on Gregg’s behalf.

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Complainant from previous trial discussed

We now move onto the complainant from Gregg’s 1997 trial, in which he was found not guilty.Now aged 35, he first made accusations of sexual abuse against Gregg in April 1996, shortly after the last occasion he says Gregg molested him.The prosecution claim the relationship was first “marked by kindness” and the complainant says he was allowed to steer Gregg’s car, like the other boys.But the he alleges that Gregg started to molest him in the car and then in a sauna.The final abuse took place in Gregg’s study, it is alleged.

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Fifth complainant's allegations

Another complainant is 39.He alleges that Gregg would make him perform a stretching exercise in the gymnasium before indecently assaulting him.He claims he trusted Gregg at the time but as he became an adult he started to regard what Gregg had done as inappropriate.

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Complainant didn't come forward due to "shame"

The complainant currently giving evidence agrees that in 1997, when first approached by police, he denied anything inappropriate had happened between him and Gregg but shortly after he did allege abuse to investigators.He said he originally failed to make the allegations due to “shame and embarrassment” and to this day has still not told his family of the alleged abuse, the prosecution say.

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Prosecution points out similarities between complaints

The allegations of abuse in Gregg’s home and car from multiple complainants are “hallmarks of the defendant’s behaviour”, say the prosecution.

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Allegations of abuse at gym and in shower

The next complainant is also now aged 40.He alleges that he was a victim of repeated abuse, starting late in 1988 or early in 1989, from when he was aged 11 or 12.The alleged abuse started in the gym area at Gregg’s home. It would later occur in the shower, it is alleged.Gregg would ask whether the alleged victim wanted shampoo, the boy would say yes and then Gregg would reach through the curtains and indecently assault him, the court hears.Gregg later abused him in his car, the jury is told.

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'Abuse happened while victim was stretching'

The complainant says Gregg would massage his (the complainant’s) knees and legs with oil.On one occasion, Gregg asked him to carry out a hamstring stretch.While laying down on a sit up bench, he alleged Gregg indecently assaulted him.

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Alleged victim told police he 'enjoyed Gregg's company'

The complainant first provided a statement to police in 1996, while aged 19.Police were investigating other allegations of abuse against Gregg. At the time the 19-year-old stated Gregg had never done anything to him to which he objected to, and he enjoyed his company.But in 2014 he gave a further statement alleging abuse.The prosecution say there will be a “compelling explanation” for why he did not allege abuse in his original statement.

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Next complainant was Gregg's pupil

For the next witness, we now move forward by more than 20 years to the late 1980s and early 1990s.This complainant, now aged 40, alleges Gregg indecently assaulted him while he was headteacher at King’s Junior School in Tynemouth.

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Complainant came forward after hearing about previous trial

He made no complaint at the time but in early 1997 he saw Gregg had stood trial for indecent assault and contacted police.

That was the trial in which Gregg was acquitted.

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Gregg 'invited victim to drive his car, then assaulted him'

During work in the construction of an adventure playground designed by Gregg, it is alleged Gregg invited the complainant to drive his car down a private road on a Northumberland estate.In 1997 the complainant was able to tell police the make and registration number of the vehicle.It is alleged that while the complainant was at the wheel, Gregg took the opportunity to indecently assault him, pressing his hand into his crotch.The alleged victim fought him off, according to the prosecution.